"Anchor"

self-released

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NYC trio Blackout came together in 2011, and their debut album We Are Here will be released independently on October 25. The band's origin story is almost too precious: a former Hooters waitress turned ad mogul meets a one-legged bartender at a Fourth of July BBQ, they recruit a drummer, and it's all tuning low and dropping out from that point on. It's hard to argue with songs like these, though, as the source of Blackout's power lies cradled within an endless dirge of huge, all-encompassing, impossibly fuzz-ridden heavy psych riffs, and crowned by windswept warbles a la Saturnalia Temple. Channeling a stoned Sleep or a K-holed Electric Wizard, "Anchor" is a blurry, black trip.